Chapter 684: Aftermath (5)
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After three years of development, the equipment of the Han army's light cavalry is constantly close to the actual combat, in addition to a one-meter-and-five-long chopping knife used in close combat, a riding crossbow that can fire three rounds in a row is also a must-have, the armor is a complete set of about eighteen catties of leather armor, the leather armor of ordinary soldiers is made of cowhide, and the officers will appropriately add some crocodile skin, and the same is that the vital heart part will be added with an iron plate. In addition, daggers, water bags and other items are also issued by the military, and knights can also carry some additional items according to their own habits, but they must not exceed ten catties.
The Han attached great importance to cavalry units so that each knight could have at least one person and two horses, and the heavy cavalry was equipped with three horses, and the heavy cavalry would also arrange two auxiliaries to serve them.
The Han army on the road where Han Xin was located was 10,000 soldiers, but because there were 2,000 heavy cavalry and 4,000 auxiliaries, the real number should be 14,000.
After leaving Pingling, they marched to the northwest, because the area where the fighting broke out had basically formed a no-man's land, so there were basically no people to see along the way, and there were only abandoned villages one after another.
The war was very destructive, not only in the destruction of the economic system, but also in the loss of human life, so that the Han army could often see the corpses lying on the side of the road during the march. Judging from the clothing of the corpses, it seems that they are some Qiantou, and there are no traces of these Qiantou being killed by weapons, so they should not starve to death or die of illness?
"It's really desolate...... Zhong Liyi's feelings are not out of hypocrisy.
At present, the areas occupied by the Han army in the south are far better than some areas in the north, and the southern region is in good order under the high-pressure policy of the Han army, while in the northern region there are not only military forces destroying it, but also some civilian armed forces are also stirring up trouble. It is precisely because of this situation that the northern Qianshou continued to flee to the south, and the fugitives brought the northern Qianshou to the southern region, and the Han State was able to stabilize the occupied area so easily in comparison with the two regions.
This Han army of 14,000 men had been walking northwest for two days, and there was really not a single ghost shadow on the road, and they would arrive at the predetermined position after walking for about half an hour.
In addition to the 14,000 Han troops heading northwest, the 10,000 Han cavalry that was the first to hide in the north had also begun to move south......
The Han army that participated in the battle against Donghu in Jibei County had 70,000 light and heavy cavalry, and another 50,000 infantry troops. Among the 50,000 infantry were 5,000 heavy armorers and 10,000 crossbowmen, as well as some spearmen and swordsmen.
Large-scale troop movements should have been discovered long ago if they were moving under normal circumstances, but Han Guang, as the commander of the coalition forces, had already turned back, and under the condition that the Yan army deliberately covered up the situation and made a constraint on the coalition forces to stay in the barracks. The 120,000 Han troops approached from several directions and did not find any anomalies in the distance.
It's too weird to stay where you are, especially after the Qi army left, whether Donghu's gang found something Chen Sheng didn't know, but he had a hairy intuition recently.
"Brother, why don't we also lead the troops back?" Wu Guang was also shocked.
It's so wrong, after the Qi army left, Han Guang ordered to camp in place, which stayed in place for almost two months, and the Han army on the opposite side did not attack, and the two sides seemed to be caught in a kind of frequent scout war. In the end, Han Guang's Yan army simply stopped all the tasks of exploring the surroundings.
The Yan army took over the scout task at the beginning for Donghu Jun and Chen Sheng, after all, they had been face to face with the Han army for more than three months, although it was to "play soy sauce" and not contribute much, but mental fatigue was always inevitable. It's great to be able to rest without doing anything.
The situation behind was a little wrong, after Han Guang led the army to retreat, why the Qi army left was not announced...... Maybe it was reported and then concealed by Han Guang? In short, since the Qi army left alone, both the coalition and the Han army seem to be content with each other, and they have never fought again.
Recent. Chen Sheng and a group of people found that there was something wrong with the actions of Han Guang's Yan army generals, and this kind of abnormality was based on the Yan army's desperate efforts to strengthen the fortifications.
The reason for reinforcing the fortifications is that they are going south to open up communication with Linzi, so it seems that they can't open up the route by just patronizing the defense and not attacking, right? Chen Sheng and Han Guang had several meetings on this issue. Han Guang gave a plausible answer, the shadow sounded too reasonable, but it was definitely not the answer that should be given when the overall situation was unfavorable.
"It's time to prepare, and it's best to contact those Donghu leaders as well." Chen Sheng touched his chin: "Have the scouts of the Yan Army detected anything recently?" β
Wu Guang shook his head: "It's the same information every day. β
It is that except for the Han army that knows that the distance is twenty miles away, the Yan army did not find anything abnormal, and it seems that as long as you observe carefully, you will find that the losses of the Yan army scouts seem to be ...... Is it not?
Tend to find that the losses of the Yan army scouts are too abnormal, Chen Sheng will become suspicious, which is also a detail that Han Guang and Zang Di did not notice at all.
To be honest, few people will pay attention to any details these days, if you know how to pay attention to details and reasonableness, and then have qualified military skills, it is really not too difficult to become a famous general, but not every major thing is corrupted in the details, at least let Chen Sheng's side find that something is wrong because of Zang Tu and Han Guang's negligence in details.
However, it seems that only people in the Chinese system will pay attention to it so much, and the Hu people, who are in the "Stone Age" and have no knowledge inheritance, are very "backward".
Donghu's southward movement is very much like a coping mentality, they mainly want to get the standard weapons from Qi Yan, and they don't really have the idea of working for Qi Yan. Therefore, in the past three months, Donghu has only participated in the war unless they have to, and more often they have stayed on the sidelines and watched the Chinese fight to the death.
How vigilant can a troop with a "soy sauce" mentality be? Especially after the Qi army left, the real "employer" was gone, so that most of the Donghu leaders already had the idea of collecting troops and returning. After negotiating with Han Guang, they were promised that they would be able to go back in the near future, not only would they have to go back, but Yan Jun would also return all the way, so they waited for Han Guang to give the order to leave.
It has to be said. The grassland Hu people are not only the administrative system at present...... That is, the tribal system. The Hu people do not have a similar structure to the Chinese in the army, and Mao Dun, who established a system such as "left and right virtuous kings" on the grassland, has not yet taken power, and the Hu people's army number also belongs to the zΓ i, and it is still the way that a tribe is a team.
On the night of the day when Chen Sheng felt the need to contact Donghu, several Han troops had already entered their own attack standby positions, and Chen Sheng was stopped by Han Guang on the way to Donghu's camp.
"Huh?" Chen Sheng could be sure that his whereabouts were being monitored, and he asked, "General Han sent you to inform me late at night?" β
Captain Yan Jun, who led the team, should be "yes", looking a little inexplicably nervous?
Chen Sheng didn't say a word and turned around and ran, he was in line with the fact that if Yan Jun didn't make any excessive moves, it would be a misunderstanding, but if Yan Jun had any misdeeds, he would confirm his recent guess.
What is the result? It was Chen Sheng who simply turned around and ran. After being stunned for a moment, the captain of the Yan military academy subconsciously took out his weapon to chase after him, chased a few steps and then stopped, and kept shouting at Chen Sheng.
It would be strange if Chen Sheng could stop, he could be regarded as understanding that Han Guang and the other Yan Jun definitely had a conspiracy, and that conspiracy was still aimed at himself!
Running back to the tent, Wu Guang and other generals of Chen Shengjun were waiting here, and as soon as they saw Chen Sheng running back panting, they immediately responded: "Lord, what's the ......?" β
"Damn, Han Guang must have some conspiracy. Lao Tzu was about to go to Donghu and was stopped halfway! Chen Sheng said and glanced at the generals in the tent: "Immediately order the whole army to be on alert, and hurry up to pack up the softness, and we will leave as soon as it is dawn!" β
One of the generals, Wu Pingpan, asked, "Then you need to send someone to inform ......" He stopped in the middle of his words and looked at the ground a little blankly. Hesitantly: "Yes...... Feel the ground shaking? β
As soon as Wu Pingban said that, everyone, including Chen Sheng, quieted down, and Wu Guang was still lying on the ground trying to feel the feeling more clearly.
As soon as Wu Guang lay on the ground, Chen Sheng came back to his senses. Hurriedly roared: "Cavalry, a large number of cavalry is approaching, immediately, immediately." All go back to your troops and defend the camp! β
What the, Yan Jun is really wrong! Chen Sheng regretted that he didn't immediately withdraw when he found out that something was wrong, and now he should know with his ass that the Phantom Han Guang guy must have surrendered to the Han Kingdom, and the rest of the people, including them, were the votes that Han Guang sold to the Han Kingdom!
More than 50,000 cavalry marching on the hooves must have caused the ground to shake slightly, and the shaking Cheng dΓΉ changed as the distance kept getting closer, and the sound of the horses' hooves was also the same, so there was a "buzzing" sound in the distance, and then it became a "booming" sound.
The most obvious movement is all showing that a large number of cavalry are approaching the barracks, and the Yan army, which knew that this would happen, is naturally guarding the camp, and Chen Sheng, who is aware of it, is waking up the soldiers in large numbers to arrange defenses, and Donghu, who is completely unaware, is waking up in his sleep and is in a daze.
"Listen to the movement, there are at least thirty or forty thousand cavalry approaching?" Xu Yu had just woken up from a dream, and he was still in a somewhat dazed posture: "Send someone to Yan Jun to ask Han Guang what happened." β
The Altai alphabet of Xu is Sabintu, the Altai alphabet of the forced fall is Vtara, Xu Xun is one of the big leaders of Donghu, Xu Xun is also a translated Chinese name, in the Hu side should actually be called Sabintu-Vtara, which is both a Rui beast species or a hook species.
Qi Lian Fuyi is also one of the great leaders of the Eastern Hu, and the name of the Hu people is kilem-Butun, which is the official name of the Hu people. He also nodded and gave a similar command.
The rest of the Donghu chieftains all shouted to their cronies to prepare for battle, and sent people to find Han Guang, they wanted to ask what happened to be one of them, and the other was to prepare to defend with the Yan army, so they didn't know that they had been betrayed at all.
Don't wonder why the same naming requires the leaders to keep repeating instructions, Donghu itself is a tribal alliance, they don't want the kingdom of the Chinese system, there is a lot of freedom between tribes, and the army is also directly under the orders of the tribal leaders, and the alliance chiefs cannot directly command the tribal forces, so they should first persuade the leaders of the various tribes to give orders from those tribal leaders. This is similar to the Chinese system's system of "ministers are the king's ministers, and the ministers are not the king's ministers" system...... That is, it is divided.
Although the Donghu people who woke up from their sleep did not know what was going on, whether it was enemy troops or friendly troops, some of them were not slow to move at all, and the shouts of the Hu people who "babble, wow, wow" were very frequent in the barracks, and then the light of the barracks slowly turned into the brightness of day.
Han Xin, who was riding on a war horse, could clearly see the three military camps in front of him that were as bright as day, and his slightly leaning body was rising and falling as the war horse continued to run on his feet.
The first batch of Han cavalry on the road where Han Xin was put into battle was a song of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment and a song under the Forbidden Army sequence, and the two thousand cavalry were all light cavalry.
At this moment, they are forming two arrows to advance, and the speed of the horses sitting down is not completely letting go of the speed and running. They were controlled by the knights and had not yet entered a state of full acceleration, and the fastest speed they could really form was within a mile of the approaching enemy.
In fact, the cavalry is not at full speed as soon as it enters the battle, and many times the speed is not much faster than that of people on foot, which is naturally done to ensure the body of the war horse, which is also one of the most basic common sense of the cavalry.
In the northwest direction is the one where Han Xin is located, and there are two other Han cavalry on the north and northeast sides.
If you stretch your field of vision into a bird's-eye view and look down from the sky, the Yan army, the Donghu army, and Chen Shengjun are in the middle, and the three Han cavalry are constantly approaching from three directions in the outer periphery. On the outskirts, there were still more Han troops approaching, and the farthest away was the Han infantry formation in a van.
As the unknown army continued to approach, Donghu also discovered the abnormality, and most of the people they sent to contact Han Guang never returned. A few people who came back told them that they would be attacked by the Yan army as soon as they got closer.
"What's the situation?" Xu Xu's IQ is definitely not negative, but many times there will be misunderstandings in his thoughts, so that he doesn't understand why Yan Jun attacks his own people.
Hu people have no knowledge, but it would be not true to say that all of them are fools. It's just that in some respects, it's really much worse than the ethnic groups with cultural heritage, such as knowing that the people sent were attacked by the Yan army, and many tribal leaders thought that the Yan army had recognized the wrong person.
"The army that came here is an enemy army, yes!" Qi Lianfu immediately decided: "Regardless of the Yan army." Beckoning the sons and daughters to prepare the horses. β
Xu Wei nodded his head: "Seeing the movement, there are enemy troops in three directions, we can move first from the direction where there are no enemy troops, and wait for dawn to see the situation." β
They are not whimsical, Donghu is not like the Chinese army, as long as it is a Hu people, there will be at least one war horse, before the contact war, the Hu people ride across the war horse to move and also have the mobility in speed, so they really don't want to fight under the premise of separation, at most they will be bitten partially, and the rest of the Hu people can still break through.
"When will the Han army arrive?" Han Guang, who had ordered the shot of Hu Man just now, looked a little nervous, he kept looking, but it was pitch black when he looked around, and he was not familiar with the cavalry and could not judge anything from the sound.
The Yan army is waiting for the battle, but it is not for the Han army to drag the Donghu army or Chen Shengjun, in fact, it is afraid that the Han army will clean them up. Therefore, Zang Di hoped that the Han army would be able to launch an offensive as much as possible, and he was also afraid that when the Han army launched an offensive, he would attack the Yan army's camp together.
Compared with Han Guang's gains and losses and suspicions, Zang Di seems to be much calmer.
Since the choice has been made, it should not be indecisive, according to Zang Di's meaning, the Yan army should not actually guard the camp and stand still, it should be immediately after the Han army appeared, it should launch an attack on the Donghu army and Chen Shengjun, who were still friendly forces a moment ago, but Han Guang disagreed.
"Donghu has opened the camp," Zang Di said in a frustrated tone, and he shook his head in confusion: "They are obviously swimming to avoid the Han army, and this is ......"
Han Guang said with a smile: "Han Wangzhe asked us to trick Donghu Yu here and wait for the Han army to attack, didn't we trick the Donghu people into standing still until the Han army attacked?" β
What can Zang Di say? He could only glance at Han Guang with hatred, and muttered in an inaudible tone: "Be careful, you will regret it, don't involve me." β
Han Guang agreed to join Han Wangzhe, but according to modern parlance, he had a "warlord mentality", that is, he wanted to preserve his strength, so that he could ask for more as a bargaining chip after annexation, but Zang Di was very sober. thinks that Han Guang will definitely regret such a thing.
In fact, it is like that, the Han King Lu Zhe has a large number of troops under his command, if he expands the organization madly, he can arm at least three million soldiers, and then the combat effectiveness of the Han army after participating in the war is also excellent, Zang Tu understands very well that even if Han Guang preserves the Yan army at hand, there is no bargaining feasibility, and if he angers Han Wangzhe, it may also become an incentive to be annihilated.
Zang Di doesn't know the modern Internet terminology, otherwise he would definitely say to Han Guang "If you don't die, you won't die" or "no-zuo-no-die". He thought for a moment and made a final attempt: "Send people or simply send troops to interfere with the breakthrough of Donghu?" β
Han Guang shook his head: "It's too late." β
It seems that it is really too late, there are at least more than 5,000 Donghu cavalry roaring out of the camp, more Donghu cavalry are still out of the camp like dumplings, and most of the Yan army is a single horse with only 3,000 infantry troops. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you can stop it now.
Coincidentally, when Donghu made the move to leave the camp, Chen Shengjun's side also opened the camp, and the first to leave the camp was the foot soldier who had been holding the "Zhu" character flag, and there seemed to be about three or five thousand people?
After Zhu Fang led the troops out of the camp, Chen Shengjun came out of the camp in several directions, and when Zang Di thought that those Chen Shengjun were going to disperse and break through, those Chen Shengjun who came out of the camp retracted back into the camp.
"Are they throwing thistle thorns?" Zang Di was puzzled.
Speaking of throwing tribulus terrestris thorns for defensive arrangement, it was definitely not the first of its kind in the Han army. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the armies of various countries had such tactics, but in recent times, it should belong to the second and third mixed regiments of the Han army that have brought this tactic into play and spread again.
Chen Sheng learned such a trick from the second and third mixed regiments of the Han army when guarding against the Donghu cavalry, only to hear the "rumble" sound of the horse's hooves and not see the enemy cavalry appear, and realized what made the generals under his command risk death to lead people out of the camp to throw thistle thorns. How can you also hinder the offensive of the enemy cavalry, and then take the opportunity to complete the army movement, right?
There is a saying that "looking at the mountain and running a dead horse", and this sentence is also used in the current situation. Under the flat terrain, the Han army, which was in a dark environment, could see the camp full of light in front of them early on, but it was not "in the blink of an eye" to get close.
It must have been about a quarter of an hour since the Han cavalry made a movement, but so far only "only the sound of it has been heard". Let the group of people who climbed into the nest car wonder if the Han army is making a false noise.
"It shouldn't be!" Han Guang was also full of confusion: "Approaching late at night and then the surprise attack is sudden, why do they seem to have been swimming around the periphery without attacking?" β
"......" Zang Di was also extremely puzzled, he said: "Could it be that there was an accident?" β
It was really because of an accident that the Han army, which launched a large-scale cavalry attack from multiple directions for the first time, was purely a miscalculation of the distance, and there was an omission in the movement from imminent to really close to the enemy. In addition, the Han troops from all walks of life did not know in the darkness whether the friendly troops had reached the posture of driving their horses into full speed, and to put it simply, they played themselves away, and the approaching Han troops did not receive the signal to officially launch an attack, so that they could only swim around the periphery.
Then, when the Han army did not receive the signal, Wei Han, who was about to order an attack, saw Donghu break away from the camp with his own eyes, but the Yan army did not intercept it, and he was extremely suspicious in his heart that the Yan army was reliable, and he really didn't have the courage to let the light cavalry with a total of 15,000 on the three roads collide with it.
You must know that including the Yan army, the total strength of the tripartite coalition army is still more than 200,000, and 15,000 cavalry can play a surprise battle, but if there is really any moth on the Yan side, 15,000 cavalry will be too thin in the past, out of a cautious mentality, it is also a realistic situation that can be encircled and annihilated by hard power, Wei Han has always decided to change the plan after urgent discussions with his subordinates.
The second plan of the Han army is to use a superior number of cavalry to blockade without success, and now the follow-up Han army is under the order of Wei Han for the layout of various arteries, what is the situation will wait for dawn to say, after all, under the premise of absolute superiority, there is no big mistake in any caution, and the loss of suddenness will be lost, and the Han army is not afraid to fight a battle with strength! (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)